[PATCH] os: Turn off the scheduler alarm after an arbitrary length of time

[Tiago Vignatti]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:41:10PM +0200, ext Adam Jackson wrote:
> If we're stuck in some difficult bit of processing, there's no point in
> punishing the client too strongly.  Worse, the continuous stream of
> SIGALRM shows up in strace and thus people report "infinite stream of
> SIGALRM" rather than whatever the bug actually is.
> 
> So if we're more than 10x past the maximum timeslice, just turn the
> signal off.

just wondering what made you think 10 is a good number?

             Tiago